Does the author's
intention matter, once a book is published? I'm not sure. But
for those readers who have an interest in that sort of thing,
my goal in writing AFTER was to explore, through fiction, the
fictions we tell ourselves to make us feel we are better than
our enemies. That's about it.

Some reviewers
called the book "disturbing." I think of it as a love
story, with tragic characters, a woman and a man who are unable
to shed the identities that divide them, even after those identities
no longer have any meaning.